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Harry Potter

By Erich Greiner, 10, of Bluffton

Harry was worried. He had never left Europe before. He had to travel to a little town in the USA called Bluffton, South Carolina, to find the secret ingredient for a potion Hermione found. This potion would turn them invisible so they could secretly go to the Order of the Phoenix meetings (with help from their old professor, Lupin, of course). The secret ingredient was Blue Skinks’ tail. Little did he know Ron was coming too.

After Harry got to Bluffton using floo powder, he found the muggles were quite different. They were way more friendly then those back on Privet Drive. He was thinking about this when he ran smack into a red haired boy about his age. When Harry picked himself up, he helped the boy to his feet. That’s when he realized it was Ron!

"Hey, Ron, what are you doing here?" he asked. "Well, I knew you would want someone with you, so I came!" Ron explained. They set out together to find someone their friend, Seamus Finnagin, said could help them get the ingredient. It was his mum’s friend from Ireland.

They had been traveling a while when they came to a sandy beach. "C’mon Harry, let’s go swim. After all it’s blistering hot!" Ron said.

" I dunno Ron, I think we should go get the tails and get out of here."

"But what’s going to happen if we take a little dip?" Ron asked. So they took about an hour to play and cool off in the May River. After all that swimming they became very hungry. "Where we going to get food?" Ron asked. "At the Oyster Company of course," Harry replied. "I read about it in a Bluffton brochure." They tried oysters and Ron ate twenty by himself. Harry hated them and ate shrimp instead. After they ate their fill and paid, they were on their way again. They walked through old Bluffton and met a nice potter. They thought about buying a new cauldron to mix the potion, but decided against it. After all they had no muggle money left! Then they kept walking and passed a muggle elementary school. Harry told Ron how when he was younger he went to schools like those. They finally found Katie O’Donalds, an Irish pub, and thought to look for the Mrs. Finnigan’s friend there. Indeed she was there having a brew when they arrived. The woman told them where to find the Blue Tailed skinks and agreed to come along and help.

They walked together and found themselves in the forest area that had been described. To their surprise though, instead of one or two they found a whole group of blue tail skinks. As the nasty blighters the skinks are, they finally caught four. The witch scared them so the skinks would drop their tails. She did this by transfiguring a stick into a bird, which pecked at the jar Harry caught them in. "Mission accomplished!" Ron said. After that they said good bye to the young witch. They traveled home using floo powder again. They were very happy to be home (except for the fact that Harry had to go to the Dursley’s for the rest of the summer)!